Belted garment



May 19, 1925.

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1,538,632 PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL I. GOLDSTEIN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK BELTED GARMENT.

Application filed March 2, 192%. Serial No. 540,605.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL I. GOLDSTEIN, of Rochester, in the county of Monroeand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belted Garments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference 1111- merals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to wearing apparel, and more particularly to coats and similar garments on the exterior of which a belt is worn as in the case of a belted overcoat, and the invention has for its object to provide a simple, convenient and inexpensive construction for such garments whereby thedealer or wearer may readily convert them from one style to another in the way of furnishing the garment with a full belt, a half belt, or no belt at all. A further object of the invention is to provide for these changes in a manner that will not disclose the fact that the style has been conv erted or that the garment has been made in any form other than the one selected. To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a rear view of a belted overcoat constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my, invention;

Figure 2 is a horizontal section therethrough in the plane of the center of the belt;

Figure 3 is a similar view of a slightly modified construction;

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary detail of a portion of Figures 2 and 3;

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary section taken horizontally through the belt of a further modification;

Figure 6 is an inside elevation of a frag-- ment of the outer or full belt shown in Figure5.

Figure 7 is an enlarged detail and fragmentary section taken horizontally through the center of the belt constituting a further modification;

Figure 8 is a fragmentary elevation of the inside of the belt of Figures 1 and '2 showing details of an attaching means;

Figure 9 isvan elevation of the inner side of one of the detachable belt straps;

Figure 10 is a vertical central section through one of the belt straps and its connected elements;

Figure 11 is a vertical section taken substantially on the line 11 -11 of Figure 5;

Figure 12 is a rear View of a belted coat illustrating a further modification of my invention Figure 13 is an enlarged horizontal sectionthrough the center of the belt thereof with a full belt applied thereto;

Figure 14 is a fragmentary View of a portion of Figure 12 showing the half belt extended, and

Figure 15 is a plan view of the full belt used with the modification of Figures 12 and 13.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same parts.

Referring first to the embodiment of the invention shown in Figures 1, 2, 8, 9 and 10, 1 represents an overcoat having side seams 2 and a pleat 3 in the center of the back held together by a half belt composed in this instance of two overlapping belt members 4 and 5. The outer or lateral ends of these belt members are stitched at 6 to the sides of the coat while their inner or central ends overlap at 7 and 8, the former being provided with button holes 9 and the latter with buttons 10 cooperating therewith to detachably connect the belt members together. As so far'described this is a usual form of coat construction constituting a half belt style. In the practice ofmy invention I provide closely adjacent to each stitched end 6 of the half belt a vertical slit 11 in the side of the coat that is of about the length of the width of the belt and which normally holds its sides so close together that it is practically invisible or at least unnoticeable. The belt members 4 and 5 may thus be unbuttoned at 10 and each individually slipped through the respective slits 11 so that the half belt disappears from the outside of the coat and lies on the inside of the coat in the dotted line position of Figure 3, where the members may be rebuttoned as shown so that they will still act to hold the pleat 3 together. This produces an apparently beltless coat instead of a half belted coat.

If, on the other hand, the wearer or customer' desires a full belted coat, the full belt shown at 12 is applied and may be attached and worn in difierent ways. As shown inFigures l, 2 and 3 belt straps 13 provided at their ends with hooks 14 are applied to the garment by means of suitably placed eyes 15 on thelatter, as shown 1n Figures 9 and 10 preferably at the side and the full belt 12 is run through these and buttoned at the front at 16 in the usual manner. It may overlie the half belt 4-5 and be secured thereto to hold it in re ister so that it completely conceals the. hall belt by providing straps 17 (Figure 8) on the inside of the full belt itself, which straps are preferably stitched to the belt at oneend, as shown at 18 and provided with snap buttons 19 at the other end cooperating wit snap sockets 20011 the belt.- These straps 17 are passed around the half belt and fastened in the manner shown in Figures 1 of two buttons.

and 2. If preferred however, the half belt may be changed to inner position, as shown in dotted lines in Figure 3 and the outer belt worn as usual supported only by the straps 13. These latter, because of their de tachable nature, are of course removed when either the halfbelt or no belt effect is desired, being retained only when full belt 12 is used.

Another mode of attaching the full belt at the back to imitate a prevalent style is to provide it with a central buttonhole21 by means of which it"is buttoned on a button 10 that secures the half belt members 5-4 together, asshown in Figure 7 bringin the button 10 into view on the outside 0 the full belt. The halfbelt shown in Figure"? is the same as that shown in Figures 1 and 2 with the exception of the fact that a single button 10 is used for the half belts instead Of course if it were a two button half belt, the full belt 12 would be provided with two buttonholes.

A further modification of this last mentioned idea provides for concealing the butvided with a buttonho e 25. The button 10 may thus be buttoned to the belt with a blind buttonhole by which it is concealed from view, as best shown in Figure 11.

In Figures 12 to 15f'is shown an embodiment of the broad invention itselj which omits the use of the slits 11 for eliminating the half belt as well as the necessity for the straps 13. In this case there is ap lied to the coat 1" a half belt composed 0 ,two overlapping members 4" and 5? which are connected as in Figure 7 with a single butto the half belt an therewith.

ton 10*. Also their other ends are each at tached tothe coat 1 through the provision of buttonholes 6 by means of buttons l3 so that the half belt is entirely detachable in one piece or two sections and the effect of no belt at all isobtained. The full belt 12 of Figures 1 to 3 ma be used with this construction for a fullibelt effect and ap plied as-betore through the use of the straps 17, but I may also use a full belt of the nature shown at 12" appearing in detail in Figure 15. This belt has properly spaced buttonholes 17* by means of which it is buttoned onto the buttons13 of the coat with or without the presence of the half belt, the ends of the full belt being connected at the front with buttons 16 as before- Different combinations of the parts of the modified structure that I have shown and described may be made to effect the general result as will be obvious to one skilled inthe art and only part of my invention may be used to "make possible only a selected two of the combination of three possible styles that my entire invention contemplates. In

at its ends, of a free belt overlying the half belt and extending around the garment and means for detachably holding it register 2; The combination with-a coat or similar garment having a half belt extending across the backthereof and composed of two members each attached atone end to the side of the garment and at the other end to the .securing the full belt.

other member, of a full belt overlyingthe half belt and extending around the garment and detachably secured to the half belt by the same means which attaches the members of the half belt to each other to hold the two belts in register.

3. The combination with a coat or sitnilar garment having a half belt extending across the back thereof and composed of two members each attached at one end to the side of i the garment and at the other end to the other member, of a full belt overlying the half belt and extending around the garment and detachably-secured to the half belt by one of the attaching means thereof.

4. The combination with a coat or'similar garment having a pleated back and slits in 1.5ae,ea2

the sides thereof, of a half belt composed of two members having their outer ends secured to the garmentat points closely adjacent to the respective slits andtheir inner ends detachably connected together to close the pleat and adapting the members to be drawn through the slits and connected in a concealed position on the inside of the garment, in which last named position they are adapted to hold the pleat closed.

5. The combination with a coat or similar garment having slits in the sides thereof, of a half belt composed of two members having their outer ends secured to the garment at points closely adjacent to the respective slits and their inner ends detachably connected together adapting the members to be drawn through the slits and connected in a concealed position on the inside of the garment, a full belt adapted to extend around the garment and to overlie and conceal the lbigllf belt and means for supporting the full 6. The combination with a coat or similar garment having slits in the sides thereof, of

a half belt composed of two members having their outer. ends secured to the garment at points closely adjacent to the respective slits and their inner ends detachably connected together adapting the members to be drawn-through the slits and connected in a concealed position on the inside of'the gar- .ment, and a full belt adapted to extend 

